Sewage in our waterways

Which is utter nonsense. How can you not blame the Tories. They are the only ones responsible. You understand that we could have Brexit and the Tories voting the opposite way? If you do understand that extremely simple fact then you can surely understand that you can only blame the people that voted in Parliament for that decision.

This is like deciding to leave a pub having the option to drink drive or getting a taxi, choosing to drive drunk and knocking someone over and then blaming the people that decided to leave the pub. SmallTown is sat in the back seat blaming the people stood in the pub car park waiting for their taxi instead of the drunk person he decided should drive.
Of course I'm blaming the Tories. They are the ones who created the Brexit shîtshow so that they can do this kind of thing. Just wait until they bin the EU workers' rights laws.
 
If the water companies had stayed in public hands we would not have had this thread.

I am not sure if Climate change has been mentioned too - when we have monsoon type rain which is more common now, the sewage systems can't cope and raw sewage is released. Investment on helping the system cope is expensive and would seriously damage profits hence it is not generally done. If profits are allowed to be the dominant criteria and the regulator is more on the side of the water companies its hards to see anything change, no matter the political background.
 

For your convenience, Evolve has collated a list of every single MP who voted to allow water companies to continue the horrendous practice of dumping raw sewage into our waterways below. Make sure you contact them or post on your social media to remind them of their duties. It is 2021 not 1988. Water companies which are highly profitable regional monopolies, some even avoiding UK tax, can not be allowed to get away with this for £.

Steve Double (Conservative – St Austell and Newquay)
Scott Mann (Conservative – North Cornwall)
George Eustice (Conservative – Camborne and Redruth – sewage affecting Godrevy, Portreath, Porthtowan etc)
Cherilyn Mackrory (Conservative – Truro and Falmouth – St Agnes, Porthtowan, Falmouth, Perranporth etc)
Gary Streeter (Conservative – South West Devon)
Robert Goodwill (Conservative – Scarborough and Whitby)
Greg Knight (Conservative – East Yorkshire)
Jacob Young (Conservative – Redcar)
Matt Hancock (Conservative – West Suffolk)
James Cartlidge (Conservative – South Suffolk)

Alun Cairns (Conservative – Vale of Glamorgan)
Duncan Baker (Conservative – North Norfolk)
Scott Benton (Conservative – Blackpool South)
Stephen Crabb (Conservative – Preseli Pembrokeshire)
David T C Davies (Conservative – Monmouth)
James Davies (Conservative – Vale of Clwyd)
Jamie Wallis (Conservative – Bridgend)
Nigel Adams (Conservative – Selby and Ainsty)
Adam Afriyie (Conservative – Windsor)
Peter Aldous (Conservative – Waveney)
Lucy Allan (Conservative – Telford)
Lee Anderson (Conservative – Ashfield)
Stuart Andrew (Conservative – Pudsey)
Edward Argar (Conservative – Charnwood)
Victoria Atkins (Conservative – Louth and Horncastle)
Gareth Bacon (Conservative – Orpington)
Kemi Badenoch (Conservative – Saffron Walden)
Shaun Bailey (Conservative – West Bromwich West)
Steve Baker (Conservative – Wycombe)
Harriett Baldwin (Conservative – West Worcestershire)
Steve Barclay (Conservative – North East Cambridgeshire)
Simon Baynes (Conservative – Clwyd South)
Aaron Bell (Conservative – Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Paul Beresford (Conservative – Mole Valley)
Bob Blackman (Conservative – Harrow East)
Crispin Blunt (Conservative – Reigate)
Peter Bone (Conservative – Wellingborough)
Andrew Bowie (Conservative – West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Graham Brady (Conservative – Altrincham and Sale West)
Suella Braverman (Conservative – Fareham)
Jack Brereton (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent South)
Andrew Bridgen (Conservative – North West Leicestershire)
Steve Brine (Conservative – Winchester)
Paul Bristow (Conservative – Peterborough)
Sara Britcliffe (Conservative – Hyndburn)
Anthony Browne (Conservative – South Cambridgeshire)
Fiona Bruce (Conservative – Congleton)
Felicity Buchan (Conservative – Kensington)
Alex Burghart (Conservative – Brentwood and Ongar)
Rob Butler (Conservative – Aylesbury)
Andy Carter (Conservative – Warrington South)
William Cash (Conservative – Stone)
Miriam Cates (Conservative – Penistone and Stocksbridge)
Maria Caulfield (Conservative – Lewes)
Alex Chalk (Conservative – Cheltenham)
Jo Churchill (Conservative – Bury St Edmunds)
Theo Clarke (Conservative – Stafford)
Brendan Clarke-Smith (Conservative – Bassetlaw)
Chris Clarkson (Conservative – Heywood and Middleton)
James Cleverly (Conservative – Braintree)
Thérèse Coffey (Conservative – Suffolk Coastal)
Damian Collins (Conservative – Folkestone and Hythe)
Alberto Costa (Conservative – South Leicestershire)
Robert Courts (Conservative – Witney)
Claire Coutinho (Conservative – East Surrey)
Virginia Crosbie (Conservative – Ynys Môn)
James Daly (Conservative – Bury North)
Gareth Davies (Conservative – Grantham and Stamford)
Mims Davies (Conservative – Mid Sussex)
Dehenna Davison (Conservative – Bishop Auckland)
Caroline Dinenage (Conservative – Gosport)
Sarah Dines (Conservative – Derbyshire Dales)
Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative – Huntingdon)
Leo Docherty (Conservative – Aldershot)
Michelle Donelan (Conservative – Chippenham)
Nadine Dorries (Conservative – Mid Bedfordshire)
Julian Lewis (Conservative – New Forest East)
Chris Loder (Conservative – West Dorset)
Oliver Dowden (Conservative – Hertsmere)
Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative – Thurrock)
Flick Drummond (Conservative – Meon Valley)
David Duguid (Conservative – Banff and Buchan)
Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative – Chingford and Woodford Green)
Ruth Edwards (Conservative – Rushcliffe)
Michael Ellis (Conservative – Northampton North)
Natalie Elphicke (Conservative – Dover)
Luke Evans (Conservative – Bosworth)
David Evennett (Conservative – Bexleyheath and Crayford)
Ben Everitt (Conservative – Milton Keynes North)
Michael Fabricant (Conservative – Lichfield)
Laura Farris (Conservative – Newbury)
Simon Fell (Conservative – Barrow and Furness)
Katherine Fletcher (Conservative – South Ribble)
Mark Fletcher (Conservative – Bolsover)
Nick Fletcher (Conservative – Don Valley)
Liam Fox (Conservative – North Somerset)
Lucy Frazer (Conservative – South East Cambridgeshire)
Mike Freer (Conservative – Finchley and Golders Green)
Marcus Fysh (Conservative – Yeovil)
Mark Garnier (Conservative – Wyre Forest)
Nusrat Ghani (Conservative – Wealden)
Nick Gibb (Conservative – Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)
Peter Gibson (Conservative – Darlington)
Jo Gideon (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent Central)
John Glen (Conservative – Salisbury)
Richard Graham (Conservative – Gloucester)
Helen Grant (Conservative – Maidstone and The Weald)
Chris Green (Conservative – Bolton West)
Andrew Griffith (Conservative – Arundel and South Downs)
Kate Griffiths (Conservative – Burton)
James Grundy (Conservative – Leigh)
Jonathan Gullis (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent North)
Robert Halfon (Conservative – Harlow)
Luke Hall (Conservative – Thornbury and Yate)
Stephen Hammond (Conservative – Wimbledon)
Mark Harper (Conservative – Forest of Dean)
Rebecca Harris (Conservative – Castle Point)
Sally-Ann Hart (Conservative – Hastings and Rye)
John Hayes (Conservative – South Holland and The Deepings)
James Heappey (Conservative – Wells)
Darren Henry (Conservative – Broxtowe)
Antony Higginbotham (Conservative – Burnley)
Richard Holden (Conservative – North West Durham)
Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative – Thirsk and Malton)
Philip Hollobone (Conservative – Kettering)
Paul Holmes (Conservative – Eastleigh)
John Howell (Conservative – Henley)
Paul Howell (Conservative – Sedgefield)
Nigel Huddleston (Conservative – Mid Worcestershire)
Neil Hudson (Conservative – Penrith and The Border)
Eddie Hughes (Conservative – Walsall North)
Jane Hunt (Conservative – Loughborough)
Tom Hunt (Conservative – Ipswich)
Alister Jack (Conservative – Dumfries and Galloway)
Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative – Morley and Outwood)
Robert Jenrick (Conservative – Newark)
Caroline Johnson (Conservative – Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Gareth Johnson (Conservative – Dartford)
David Johnston (Conservative – Wantage)
Andrew Jones (Conservative – Harrogate and Knaresborough)
David Jones (Conservative – Clwyd West)
Marcus Jones (Conservative – Nuneaton)
Simon Jupp (Conservative – East Devon)
Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative – Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Alicia Kearns (Conservative – Rutland and Melton)
Gillian Keegan (Conservative – Chichester)
Julian Knight (Conservative – Solihull)
Danny Kruger (Conservative – Devizes)
Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative – Spelthorne) (Proxy vote cast by Stuart Andrew)
John Lamont (Conservative – Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk)
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative – South Northamptonshire)
Andrew Lewer (Conservative – Northampton South)
Mark Logan (Conservative – Bolton North East)
Marco Longhi (Conservative – Dudley North)
Julia Lopez (Conservative – Hornchurch and Upminster)
Jack Lopresti (Conservative – Filton and Bradley Stoke)
Rachel Maclean (Conservative – Redditch)
Kit Malthouse (Conservative – North West Hampshire)
Anthony Mangnall (Conservative – Totnes)
Julie Marson (Conservative – Hertford and Stortford)
Theresa May (Conservative – Maidenhead)
Jerome Mayhew (Conservative – Broadland)
Paul Maynard (Conservative – Blackpool North and Cleveleys)
Karl McCartney (Conservative – Lincoln)
Stephen McPartland (Conservative – Stevenage)
Mark Menzies (Conservative – Fylde)
Stephen Metcalfe (Conservative – South Basildon and East Thurrock)
Robin Millar (Conservative – Aberconwy)
Maria Miller (Conservative – Basingstoke)
Nigel Mills (Conservative – Amber Valley)
Andrew Mitchell (Conservative – Sutton Coldfield)
Gagan Mohindra (Conservative – South West Hertfordshire)
Damien Moore (Conservative – Southport)
Robbie Moore (Conservative – Keighley)
Penny Mordaunt (Conservative – Portsmouth North)
Anne Marie Morris (Conservative – Newton Abbot)
James Morris (Conservative – Halesowen and Rowley Regis)
Joy Morrissey (Conservative – Beaconsfield)
Jill Mortimer (Conservative – Hartlepool)
Wendy Morton (Conservative – Aldridge-Brownhills)
Kieran Mullan (Conservative – Crewe and Nantwich)
Holly Mumby-Croft (Conservative – Scunthorpe)
David Mundell (Conservative – Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale)
Sheryll Murray (Conservative – South East Cornwall)
Andrew Murrison (Conservative – South West Wiltshire)
Robert Neill (Conservative – Bromley and Chislehurst)
Lia Nici (Conservative – Great Grimsby)
Neil O’Brien (Conservative – Harborough)
Guy Opperman (Conservative – Hexham)
Neil Parish (Conservative – Tiverton and Honiton)
Owen Paterson (Conservative – North Shropshire)
Mark Pawsey (Conservative – Rugby)
Mike Penning (Conservative – Hemel Hempstead)
John Penrose (Conservative – Weston-super-Mare)
Chris Philp (Conservative – Croydon South)
Christopher Pincher (Conservative – Tamworth)
Dan Poulter (Conservative – Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)
Rebecca Pow (Conservative – Taunton Deane)
Victoria Prentis (Conservative – Banbury)
Mark Pritchard (Conservative – The Wrekin)
Tom Pursglove (Conservative – Corby)
Will Quince (Conservative – Colchester)
Tom Randall (Conservative – Gedling)
John Redwood (Conservative – Wokingham)
Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative – North East Somerset)
Nicola Richards (Conservative – West Bromwich East)
Angela Richardson (Conservative – Guildford)
Laurence Robertson (Conservative – Tewkesbury)
Mary Robinson (Conservative – Cheadle)
Douglas Ross (Conservative – Moray)
Lee Rowley (Conservative – North East Derbyshire)
Dean Russell (Conservative – Watford)
David Rutley (Conservative – Macclesfield)
Gary Sambrook (Conservative – Birmingham, Northfield)
Selaine Saxby (Conservative – North Devon)
Paul Scully (Conservative – Sutton and Cheam)
Bob Seely (Conservative – Isle of Wight)
Andrew Selous (Conservative – South West Bedfordshire)
Grant Shapps (Conservative – Welwyn Hatfield)
Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative – Elmet and Rothwell)
Chris Skidmore (Conservative – Kingswood)
Chloe Smith (Conservative – Norwich North)
Greg Smith (Conservative – Buckingham)
Henry Smith (Conservative – Crawley)
Julian Smith (Conservative – Skipton and Ripon)
Royston Smith (Conservative – Southampton, Itchen)
Ben Spencer (Conservative – Runnymede and Weybridge)
Mark Spencer (Conservative – Sherwood)
Alexander Stafford (Conservative – Rother Valley)
Andrew Stephenson (Conservative – Pendle)
Jane Stevenson (Conservative – Wolverhampton North East)
Bob Stewart (Conservative – Beckenham)
Iain Stewart (Conservative – Milton Keynes South)
Mel Stride (Conservative – Central Devon)
Graham Stuart (Conservative – Beverley and Holderness)
Julian Sturdy (Conservative – York Outer)
James Sunderland (Conservative – Bracknell)
Desmond Swayne (Conservative – New Forest West)
Robert Syms (Conservative – Poole)
Maggie Throup (Conservative – Erewash)
Edward Timpson (Conservative – Eddisbury)
Justin Tomlinson (Conservative – North Swindon)
Michael Tomlinson (Conservative – Mid Dorset and North Poole)
Craig Tracey (Conservative – North Warwickshire)
Laura Trott (Conservative – Sevenoaks)
Tom Tugendhat (Conservative – Tonbridge and Malling)
Shailesh Vara (Conservative – North West Cambridgeshire)
Martin Vickers (Conservative – Cleethorpes)
Matt Vickers (Conservative – Stockton South)
Christian Wakeford (Conservative – Bury South)
Robin Walker (Conservative – Worcester)
Charles Walker (Conservative – Broxbourne)
David Warburton (Conservative – Somerton and Frome)
Matt Warman (Conservative – Boston and Skegness)
Giles Watling (Conservative – Clacton)
Suzanne Webb (Conservative – Stourbridge)
Helen Whately (Conservative – Faversham and Mid Kent)
Heather Wheeler (Conservative – South Derbyshire)
John Whittingdale (Conservative – Maldon)
James Wild (Conservative – North West Norfolk)
Craig Williams (Conservative – Montgomeryshire)
Gavin Williamson (Conservative – South Staffordshire)
Mike Wood (Conservative – Dudley South)
William Wragg (Conservative – Hazel Grove)
Jeremy Wright (Conservative – Kenilworth and Southam)
TELLER: Alan Mak (Conservative – Havant)
TELLER: Craig Whittaker (Conservative – Calder Valley)
Nevermind Brexit and nevermind Tories, that’s way too many MPs for any sized country.
 
If profits are allowed to be the dominant criteria and the regulator is more on the side of the water companies its hards to see anything change, no matter the political background.
Who appoints the Regulator?

Therein lies the rub. The whole modus operandi of the industry revolves around the appointment of one person and the way in which they allow the companies to run. Brexit allowed the government to avoid the need to punish the companies and to give the companies free rain (pun intentional) to krap all over the environment. One way in which nationalisation could be facilitated would be to start to punish the companies severely for every transgression and make it unprofitable to be lax. You would either see the companies make every effort to repair and augment the system of provision or hand back the keys like has been done in the rail industry.

It is screamingly obvious when you look at the map of Britain showing sewage releases that this has not happened in Scotland where the water industry is still in public hands.
 
I don’t think you understand the brexit you voted for. In the EU we had to have clean waters. Brexiteers always talk about getting rid of those pesky EU laws. Therefore they’ve got what they wanted here. They should be happy for raw sewage to be pumped into our waterways. It was directly because they wanted rid of EU laws that it happened.
Utter rubbish, what has being in or out of the Eu got to do with sewage discharge it is a decision by our government to allow this, it is abhorrent that this happening!
 
You just keep digging a bigger and bigger hole for yourself. Of course it's down to Brexit - without that, the Tories could not have allowed this to happen.
Our government must take responsibility for this, just because we left The EU doesn't mean we can abdicate our responsibility, it is down to allowing water companies to cut back on services and investment, so they can pay bigger dividends and executive wages !
 
Utter rubbish, what has being in or out of the Eu got to do with sewage discharge it is a decision by our government to allow this, it is abhorrent that this happening!
You need to try and keep up. There is en EU directive stopping this very thing happening. Brexitist wanted to abolish EU laws. Well they've got their wish. I don't know why I have to keep explaining it to people. I guess that's the issue with brexiteers isn't it? Facts are a struggle for them
 
It is screamingly obvious when you look at the map of Britain showing sewage releases that this has not happened in Scotland where the water industry is still in public hands.
Sounds to me like they have this exact same problem in Scotland.

 
You need to try and keep up. There is en EU directive stopping this very thing happening. Brexitist wanted to abolish EU laws. Well they've got their wish. I don't know why I have to keep explaining it to people. I guess that's the issue with brexiteers isn't it? Facts are a struggle for them
You have to keep explaining it because you are being a moron about it. You've buried your head so far up your own **** that you can't see the difference between your own sewage and that which your government are allowing to be pumped into the waters.

Which is utter nonsense. How can you not blame the Tories. They are the only ones responsible. You understand that we could have Brexit and the Tories voting the opposite way? If you do understand that extremely simple fact then you can surely understand that you can only blame the people that voted in Parliament for that decision.

This is like deciding to leave a pub having the option to drink drive or getting a taxi, choosing to drive drunk and knocking someone over and then blaming the people that decided to leave the pub. SmallTown is sat in the back seat blaming the people stood in the pub car park waiting for their taxi instead of the drunk person he decided should drive.
Still this. I've noticed you've happily just ignored my contributions across several threads explaining your hypocrisy and refusal to acknowledge your arrogance and ignorance and moved on to the next person you claim is bullying you. You might as well be in the Tory party, never mind just being a voter, with how slippery you are. Your methods of discussion are extremely childish. If everyone has a problem with you then maybe have a look in the mirror and wonder if you might be to blame for that. People are sick of your rants about one thing and not accepting that your actions are to blame for another.

We get that you disagree with Brexit, we know that the prevailing views of this board only fall in line with you on that one single subject which is why you ignore everything else and just keep banging that one drum even when you are wrong about it.

You voted for the Conservatives. Accept it, own it and be honest about it. You criticise the government for all sorts of things so why can't you accept that they are the problem here? I don't believe that you are stupid so why are you being stupid?
 
Before we joined the EU were were known as the "dirty man of Europe". Rivers were so polluted that fish could not live in them, The Scandinavian countries were complaining of acid rain caused by our filthy emissions from our power stations and industries. The Irish were complaining of sewage from our shores being swept to their shores. (Including radioactive waste water). Locally there were signs around Redcar, Saltburn, Seaton Carew, Teesmouth, warning people not to eat the shellfish from those places. Notices were regularly placed in the local papers to back this up. I remember as a 15 year old standing on Newport Bridge looking down at a brownish, greenish, creamish, turgid mass of so called water where absolutely nothing could live. Life expectancy in certain wards was much lower than the national average.
After joining the EU (then called the EEC) things gradually improved due the the legislation provided by the EU. WE now have a clean river Tees where even salmon, last seen in the 19th century, has returned and thrives. The sky has been cleaned up due to better technology and work practices. Water treatment is taken for granted and is expected.
Now we have left the EU Truss wants to make a bonfire of ALL EU legislation. Water companies have been carte blanche to pour sh1t into our waters and our environmental protection will go up in smoke.
None of this would have been possible if we had stayed in the EU.
 
Before we joined the EU were were known as the "dirty man of Europe". Rivers were so polluted that fish could not live in them, The Scandinavian countries were complaining of acid rain caused by our filthy emissions from our power stations and industries. The Irish were complaining of sewage from our shores being swept to their shores. (Including radioactive waste water). Locally there were signs around Redcar, Saltburn, Seaton Carew, Teesmouth, warning people not to eat the shellfish from those places. Notices were regularly placed in the local papers to back this up. I remember as a 15 year old standing on Newport Bridge looking down at a brownish, greenish, creamish, turgid mass of so called water where absolutely nothing could live. Life expectancy in certain wards was much lower than the national average.
After joining the EU (then called the EEC) things gradually improved due the the legislation provided by the EU. WE now have a clean river Tees where even salmon, last seen in the 19th century, has returned and thrives. The sky has been cleaned up due to better technology and work practices. Water treatment is taken for granted and is expected.
Now we have left the EU Truss wants to make a bonfire of ALL EU legislation. Water companies have been carte blanche to pour sh1t into our waters and our environmental protection will go up in smoke.
None of this would have been possible if we had stayed in the EU.
Sad but true. It's such a shame brexiters have ban brainwashed so badly that they just can't see these basic facts. I imagine they are all embarrassed at the state we have become which is why they lash out and try and attack anything but brexit. Sadly for them, this one is a cold, hard, undeniable fact. Not that facts matter much to the cult of brexit
 
Before we joined the EU were were known as the "dirty man of Europe". Rivers were so polluted that fish could not live in them, The Scandinavian countries were complaining of acid rain caused by our filthy emissions from our power stations and industries. The Irish were complaining of sewage from our shores being swept to their shores. (Including radioactive waste water). Locally there were signs around Redcar, Saltburn, Seaton Carew, Teesmouth, warning people not to eat the shellfish from those places. Notices were regularly placed in the local papers to back this up. I remember as a 15 year old standing on Newport Bridge looking down at a brownish, greenish, creamish, turgid mass of so called water where absolutely nothing could live. Life expectancy in certain wards was much lower than the national average.
After joining the EU (then called the EEC) things gradually improved due the the legislation provided by the EU. WE now have a clean river Tees where even salmon, last seen in the 19th century, has returned and thrives. The sky has been cleaned up due to better technology and work practices. Water treatment is taken for granted and is expected.
Now we have left the EU Truss wants to make a bonfire of ALL EU legislation. Water companies have been carte blanche to pour sh1t into our waters and our environmental protection will go up in smoke.
None of this would have been possible if we had stayed in the EU.



I'm sympathetic to the general thrust of your post but it's not the complete picture. The deindustrialisation of Teesside has played a major part in the fall in pollution.
 
Before we joined the EU were were known as the "dirty man of Europe". Rivers were so polluted that fish could not live in them, The Scandinavian countries were complaining of acid rain caused by our filthy emissions from our power stations and industries. The Irish were complaining of sewage from our shores being swept to their shores. (Including radioactive waste water). Locally there were signs around Redcar, Saltburn, Seaton Carew, Teesmouth, warning people not to eat the shellfish from those places. Notices were regularly placed in the local papers to back this up. I remember as a 15 year old standing on Newport Bridge looking down at a brownish, greenish, creamish, turgid mass of so called water where absolutely nothing could live. Life expectancy in certain wards was much lower than the national average.
After joining the EU (then called the EEC) things gradually improved due the the legislation provided by the EU. WE now have a clean river Tees where even salmon, last seen in the 19th century, has returned and thrives. The sky has been cleaned up due to better technology and work practices. Water treatment is taken for granted and is expected.
Now we have left the EU Truss wants to make a bonfire of ALL EU legislation. Water companies have been carte blanche to pour sh1t into our waters and our environmental protection will go up in smoke.
None of this would have been possible if we had stayed in the EU.
Some good points there and I also remember how it used to be, especially air quality having lived in North Ormesby and Redcar. Just to be clear the EU legislation is still here and it is UK law, its the same. Sewage has been discharged before brexit and will be after brexit so its nothing to do with this. Successive governments have known about this for years and its only now that increased information is available that the scale of the issue is known more. So even if the EU legislation is abolished, the same standards exits in UK law.
 
Some good points there and I also remember how it used to be, especially air quality having lived in North Ormesby and Redcar. Just to be clear the EU legislation is still here and it is UK law, its the same. Sewage has been discharged before brexit and will be after brexit so its nothing to do with this. Successive governments have known about this for years and its only now that increased information is available that the scale of the issue is known more. So even if the EU legislation is abolished, the same standards exits in UK law.
Improvements in air quality are far more likely to be due to de-industrialisation than anything else.
 
I agree deindustrialization has helped but air quality has been improving since joining the EU due to legislation. The fact that there is little industry left is a plus for air quality. The same goes for water quality.
 
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